[4] In the backmatter of one Vickers' other works she is described as "a lovely Puritan maid whose charm makes her irresistible - even to the detective whom she baffles at every turn.

She has the face of an angel and her beauty and charm have enabled her to gather a gang of highly skilled men: an actor, a scientist, a lawyer and others to assist her in her crimes.

Fidelity helps those who have been wronged, cheated or exploited, but in almost every tale her actions result in profits for herself and her gang of men.

In 1970 The New York Times Book Review ranked Vicker's The Exploits of Fidelity Dove and The Department of Dead Ends among the finest contemporary crime writing.

[citation needed] Otto Penzler, writing in the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection (1976) described Miss Dove as “One of the most inventive and successful of all crooks.”[8] Dorothy L. Sayers ranked her among the best female master criminals including her alongside John Kendrick Bangs' Mrs. Raffles, Frederick Irving Anderson's Sophie Lang, and Edgar Wallace's Four Square Jane.